Mural Services
Hand-painted murals featuring custom imagery that celebrates regional ecology.
Public art can help civic agencies preserve history while beautifying public spaces. Murals can enrich evolving urban landscapes and bring a renewed sense of community to your area. Whether you would like panoramic views across multiple buildings, or a feature wall near a public park, the right mural can establish a sense of place that enriches the human spirit - inspiring hope, beauty and vitality to a grey concrete world.
Public Art
Street painting at the yearly Madonnari street painting event known as Art Along the Rogue. I foraged around my neighborhood and found gorgeous colors and textures in apples, figs, wilting flowers, crinkled leaves and featured my fiddle in the center.
Grants Pass, Oregon 2023
This project for Eugene‘s Municipal Court community resource room brought the color and beauty of our native plant community as a metaphor to a space that provides services for those going through the community court system. It is a meeting space for helping folks get a leg up and out of the toughest situations our community faces in homelessness, addiction, employment and mental health. Truly an honor to paint for the fantastic ladies of community court and get to know such a compassionate and powerful team. Thanks to Urban Canvas for coordinating and a successful first time working together!
Featured native plants, include: pacific dogwood, California poppy, salmonberry, columbine, camas, maidenhair fern, sword fern, trillium, fawn lily, delphinium, bleedingheart, checkermallow, monkeyflower
Street painting at the yearly Madonnari street painting event known as Art Along the Rogue. I foraged around my neighborhood and found gorgeous colors and textures in apples, figs, wilting flowers, crinkled leaves and featured my fiddle in the center.
Native and endangered species mural featuring chanterelles, Oregon Grape, Swallowtail Butterfly, Deer Fern, Bleeding Heart, Camas, a Mason Bee, California Poppy, Lupine, and many others!
I was honored to paint for the new Portland Living Building, a truly incredible space that is paving the way for others to learn from. After a year in the making of outdoor research, site visits and design drafts, I created each mural to represent a local ecoregion. This series brings together my rural Oregon roots & natural history, love of these wild places and bold design inspired by the fibonacci spiral.
Native and endangered species mural for Swallowtail Spirits with painting assistance from A3 high school students.
Eugene Ballet Mural. It was such an honor to paint these magnificent dancers from the Eugene Ballet Company on this new building with the help of Lucas Brinkerhoff. @lucas_brinkerhoff_art. We studied the muscles and bone structure of these bodies to bring them to life and incorporate them into the abstract background. Thanks to Josh Neckels and Dustrud Architecture for bringing me on to create this custom piece for the new home of so many wonderful arts and culture orgs in Eugene.
Photo Credit: Chris Becker and Lucas Brinkerhoff
Commissioned for Eugene Public Library, this is a playable public art piece for musicians to enjoy downtown. The design I painted on the surface of this Spinet piano features native plants of Indian paintbrush, maidenhair fern and lupine in vibrant colors. Abstracted book pages stand behind the plants in gold and blue, while accents of the original wood are throughout the piano.
Commission for City of Medford. Mural and Ceramic Installation located in Hawthorne Park Viaduct pillars under Interstate-5.
My team was commissioned to help revitalize this park's reputation from an unsafe and underused space into a vibrant welcoming public greenspace in downtown Medford. Today Hawthorne Park hosts music events, farmer's markets, dog parks and playgrounds.
Six pillars are painted with the Rogue Valley's landscapes, with each design featuring a native species in their habitat.
With the support of the Wildlife Images Center, we collected the stories and research of many characters including the Western pond turtle, blue heron, trout, salmon, rattlesnake, swallowtail butterfly, pollinators, insects, black bear and cougar.
As a local to Southern Oregon, this wildlife mural has been an experience of restoring reputation and relationship with the park as a vibrant space. It has also been an experience of portraying species that we humans fear or don't connect with. Our hope is that these images can help create a new relationship of respect and curiosity with the black bear, cougar, rattlesnake and others while continuing to honor and revitalize populations such as the salmon and honeybee.
See more progress images of this project at instagram.com/jessbrinkart.
Collaboration with Ecomurals and support by Lucas Brinkerhoff.
I was asked to design this mural for the Friendly Area Neighborhood under the theme “Building a Better, More Just and Equitable World”. I created this graphic colorful design after holding workshops with middle school students to brainstorm ideas for a Better World. Guess what they want to see in a better world? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Getting around by bike ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Access to healthcare⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Voting⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Animals, plants, insects⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
A healthy ocean and garbage cleanup⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Zero - waste⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Recycling⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Working together despite differences⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Friendship and understanding not divisions⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Racial equity⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Planting more trees⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Caring for our Home, the Earth⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Alternative energy and bicycles all around⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
All the good stuff!
This wall has history in Eugene, Oregon. Owned by Aqua Serene, this wall helped set the precedent for murals on businesses and gain permissions to put art on their buildings. The former fish mural held up pretty well for 30 years! Now it has a fresh transformation that suits both the coffee shop and Aqua serene with some requested hidden surprises.
'Working Forward, Weaving Anew'. 2017.
The City of Tacoma requested a contemporary historical mural for the downtown Prairie Line Trail public art walk. The design features stories of the cedar tree from the perspective of the first peoples in the Puyallup tribe. As the mural moves to the right, the history of cedar becomes a story of European commodities and production in the growing city of Tacoma. Research and collaboration took place with historians and the Puyallup tribe of Tacoma.
Exterior Mural and Plasma Cut Steel. 275' x 55'.
Location: 7 Seas Brewery and Taproom-2101 Jefferson Ave, Tacoma, WA 98402
Collaboration with EcoMurals. Steel fabricated by Lucas Brinkerhoff.
https://www.prairielinetrail.org/site/working-forward-weaving-anew
Funky PNW themed mural design and installation full of raindrops, foliage, geese and textures of my homestate to life.
Mural by Jess Brinkerhoff, a Business Mural located in Tacoma Washington. Jess designs custom meaningful murals that enrich public spaces for over 15 years.
This mural lives in the Wildcraft Ciderworks interior music venue. I was asked to design a mural that included several of the botanicals they infuse into their ciders: rose, aronia, hops, mahonia, fireweed, yarrow, fiddleheads, fern, hawthorne and many more.
This colorful design added vibrancy to a dim grey parking garage for student housing. The bold abstract design features track runners as a nod to Eugene, Oregon’s Tracktown heritage.
The Gordon Hotel requested a mural design for the facade of their art hotel downtown. This piece features my favorite Oregonian flower from childhood, the Indian Paintbrush, or Castilleja.
Growing up in Oregon, several teachers taught me reverence for our landscape and I use art to return the favor to the next generations. Identifying and painting the native plants of my home state is a lifelong project. Indian Paintbrush, a favorite native plants in Oregon, is featured in this design alongside a companion plant Balsamroot Arrowleaf. The piece is meant to show a metaphorical hand presenting this gift from the land as a metaphor for times right now when flowers still bloom.
The Inn at the Prom in Seaside, Oregon asked for a feature wall mural that was abstract, simple and colorful while including ocean life. Since botanicals are one of my favorites, this was a lovely partnership resulting in a mural featuring Seaside treasures like bull kelp, coral and sand dollars. Their bright brand colors directed the color palette for this selfie wall.
The Inn at Haystack Rock in Cannon Beach, Oregon requested these lovely muted colors from their branding guide and I may be hooked on these dimmed down complementary palettes. The mural features the famous Haystack Rock and species to be found there: gooseneck barnacles, starfish, puffins, clams and kelp.
Civic Winery is an innovative natural winery and bottle shop. They asked me to get urban and creative with their signage while using the historic architecture of the 1937 Civic Building as the canvas. With letters from an old Italian typeface, I hand painted their signage and created three abstract mural paintings on the facade of the building.
This wall has history in Eugene, Oregon. Owned by Aqua Serene, this wall helped set the precedent for murals on businesses and gain permissions to put art on their buildings. The former fish mural held up pretty well for 30 years! Now it has a fresh transformation that suits both the coffee shop and Aqua serene with some requested hidden surprises.
Coffee Plant Roaster asked me to enliven these blue bathroom walls with coffee plants!
Visit them for fresh ground coffee and their fantastic food menu all made in house.
Murals for Businesses
I work with business leaders whose aim is not only to grow their business, but to enrich their community with beautiful artwork.
This visual marketing situates them as a thoughtful local business and integrates them more deeply into the fabric of their community.
Forest Bedroom Mural in blue, green and red featuring PNW forests, wildlife, maples, oaks, pines, firs and wildflowers.
It all begins with an idea.
Botanical Mandala Mural in copper, blue, green and red to compliment the space.
Additional bedroom mandala in blue.
Residential Murals
Whether a welcoming feature wall in a kitchen, home office,
or a child’s whimsical bedroom wall - these murals are uniquely designed to enchant you and your guests.
During mural painting workshops with youth, students first learn drawing, painting and the art of observing nature. Check out these murals that are both teaching tools and legacy artwork for public schools.
Workshops in Schools
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“I worked with Jessilyn’s team on Medford’s I-5 Viaduct Mural Project.
During her time working with the City of Medford and its arts commission, she demonstrated
exceptional professionalism, responsiveness and strong design craft to transform concrete
pillars into works of art that revitalized the atmosphere of Hawthorne Park in downtown
Medford.”
—Rich Rosenthal, City of Medford Parks & Recreation Director.
Tea flowers for a mural at home created during the winter .